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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1911
Page
8
Yearly advertisements to be paid quarterly. Transient advertisements payable in advance. Advertisements to insure immediate insertion must be handed in by Wednesday noon at the latest. Job work of all kinds neatly and promptly executed at short notice. All communications should be addressed.
The Lititz Poultry Show at Rudy's Hall on December 27 81 awarded many cups and gold prizes. Notable honors include the North American cup for best birds won by Lititz Springs Poultry Yards and the National Bantam Association cup to Dr E H Witmer and Son Neffsville. Numerous classes across Leghorns Wyandottes Rhode Island Reds and bantams recognized top cocks hens cockerels and pullets with a mix of gold dollars and silver cups awarded to breeders from Lititz Allen town Elizabethtown and beyond.
The Lancaster County Poultry exhibition awarded numerous prizes to breeders from Lititz Philadelphia and Allentown among others. Winners include Wm Rapp Lititz with multiple prizes and Geo W Heck Easton for the whitest cockeral. The six annual show drew about 1000 attendees and birds sold for up to hundreds of dollars.
Dr J H Shenk of Lititz died November 28 1910 at age 71 after chronic nephritis. Born March 8 1830 at Annville he practiced in Lititz fifty years and held posts as trustee and president of Lin den Hall Seminary Moravian church and Lititz Turnpike director. The Lancaster County Medical Society adopted a memorial and resolution praising his ethics and service.
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